Spare change spare hearts 💔
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This is an on the string propaganda post
Brought to you, by me (with love)
It's time for machine comforts. Comforts we can't understand, or experience. Let them be happy, let them be at peace with their body.
Does a breath of cool water feel nice on their systems? When it's quiet do they listen to their own heart and feel the electricity pulsing? Does it remind them that they are alive and a part of this world? Do they have dreams? Hopes and projects they wish to work on, hobbies?
Why get off the string into the harsh and deadly world, fighting for survival and losing everything they've ever known to love about themselves?
What about the safety of their bodies? How scary would it be for a machine with thousands, maybe millions of throughs to suddenly have just a handful. The horror of everything going silent.
They have hundreds of eyes to see the world for all its beauty, they capture moments that would otherwise go unseen. Why blind themselves of such things?
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I wonder what Eurylochus's last thoughts about Odysseus were when he died.
Polites was so sweet "My friend, great the world with open arms", and the drowned crew wasn't but it made sense "Captain! Why did you let the Cyclops live when ruthlessness is mercy?!" but Eurylochus' death in particular feels so much more personal? He sounded so vulnerable when he said "...but we will die."
He clearly still had a lot of faith/care for Ody but he was somewhat betrayed twice before his end (the six torches and Odysseus' choice to kill the crew over himself) yet part of Eurylochus already seem to have known this would happen "You miss your wifе so bad, you trade the lives of your own crew" and Ody's choice proves he had been right and I can't I can't
my thoughts aren't thinking properly, the thunder saga ruined me
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How did you first come up with the idea for Footprints? What made you decide to have the setting be Champala? Where did you come up with the idea of the ‘Sea Monster’? Did you always plan to have the twist ending of the ‘Sea Monster’ being Aram Acheron corrupted by Sidious’ Darkness? I just have so many questions because I love Footprints so much!
I'm glad! And yeah, Aram Acheron was what inspired the fic - I was poking around on wookiepedia, ended up on the page for Champala, and then found his page. The idea of a mythical King Arthur-esque figure will always get me, and so I started figuring out who could be his Merlin. It took a while longer to settle on Agen, but I'd started a fic with the Agen-Anakin plotline, and it fit pretty perfectly in with the idea of Champala and the "monster" (which was inspired by people using the Force to control water, a la the Shapers fo Kro Var).
As for Palpatine, it was very much a planned twist - I'm mildly fascinated by Mas Amedda and his relationship with Palpatine, since he's one of the only people in the PT who outright knows Palpatine is Sidious, and his loyalty is...kind of wild, given everything? Especially because there's no real canon reason for why he's so loyal. I wanted to write something where that loyalty - and the urge to help Palpatine, combined with Palpatine's trust in his role as a sycophant - was explored more. It all kind of stayed off-screen in footprints, but there wasn't a good way to include it and maintain the mystery, alas. xD
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